"No, that's too expensive. Just don't do it anymore."
(Homer Simpson's response when Marge asked if she needed
professional help for a problem.)

The DOCTOR YOURSELF (SM) NEWSLETTER Vol 2, No 4
December 20, 2001 "Free of charge, free of advertising, and
free of the A.M.A." Written by Andrew Saul, PhD of
http://www.doctoryourself.com , a free online library of 300
natural healing articles with nearly 4,000 scientific
references.

60,000 mg of VITAMIN C AS CHEMOTHERAPY AGAINST CANCER
There are many good reasons to give large quantities of
ascorbic acid (vitamin C) to a cancer patient. Ascorbic acid
strengthens the collagen "glue" that holds healthy cells together
and retards the spread of an existing tumor. The vitamin
also greatly strengthens the immune system, and provides
a surprising level of pain relief.

But there is more. Vitamin C has been shown to be
preferentially toxic to tumor cells, similar to cytotoxic
drug cancer chemotherapy. Laboratory and clinical studies
indicate that, in high enough doses, one can maintain blood
plasma concentrations of ascorbic acid high enough to
selectively kill tumor cells. If you have not heard about this,
it is probably because most of the best-publicized vitamin
C and cancer studies simply have not utilized high enough
doses. Hugh D. Riordan, M.D., and colleagues have treatment
data which "demonstrate the ability to sustain plasma levels
of ascorbic acid (AA) in humans above levels which are toxic
to tumor cells in vitro and suggests the feasibility of using
AA as a cytotoxic chemotherapeutic agent."

You can read the full text of Dr. Riordan's paper at
http://www.doctoryourself.com/riordan1.html
A listing of scientific papers on this subject by Dr.
Riordan's team will be found at
http://www.doctoryourself.com/biblio_riordan.html

THE DOCTOR YOURSELF SANTA HAS NEW ARTICLES TO FILL YOUR
SELF-RELIANT STOCKING

Yes, I read your emails. Each one of these is by readers'
popular request:

DOCTOR YOURSELF WEBSITE OF THE MONTH:
Joey Green's "WACKY USES" website, which tells us more than
we want to know about "Coca-Cola," America's bottled love
affair with phosphoric acid chemistry, at
http://www.wackyuses.com/coke.html

For it is good ol' phosphoric acid, along with a nice slug of
carbonic acid, that makes Coca Cola so useful around the house
and factory. Mr. Green offers the following light industrial
uses for Coke:

Remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers.
"Rubbing the bumper with a crumpled-up piece of aluminum foil
dipped in Coca-Cola will help remove rust spots, according to
household-hints columnist Mary Ellen" who also tells us how to:

Loosen a rusted bolt.
"Mary Ellen suggests applying a cloth soaked in a carbonated
soda to the rusted bolt for several minutes."

Clean corrosion from car battery terminals.
"Pour a can of Coca-Cola over the terminals to bubble away the
corrosion, according to (household-hints columnist) Heloise."
Her next hint is my personal fave:

Clean a toilet bowl.
"Pour a can of Coca-Cola into the toilet bowl. Let the
"real thing" sit for one hour, then brush and flush clean.
The acid in Coke removes stains."

Coca Cola in a toilet bowl? Good place for it. Just try not
to get it there by way of your teeth and alimentary tract.

LEARN THE GERSON CANCER THERAPY FOR $17
It has been said that more people live off cancer than die
from it. The Gerson Therapy is a book that can put a stop to
this travesty. Here is a very practical, highly detailed guide
to the intensive nutritional treatment of cancer and other
life-threatening diseases that many would consider to have
been impossible to obtain. But thanks to the work of Max
Gerson, M.D., and his daughter, author Charlotte Gerson,
this knowledge is readily available for all who need it.

Max Gerson cured cancer. He did so with a strict fat-free,
salt-free, low-protein, essentially vegetarian dietary regimen,
based on great quantities of fresh vegetable juice, supplements,
and systemic detoxification. Ms. Gerson explains:

"Dr. Gerson found that the underlying problems of all cancer
patients are toxicity and deficiency. He had to overcome both
these difficulties. He found that one of the important
features of his therapy had to be the hourly administration
of fresh vegetable juices. These supply ample nutrients, as
well as fluids to help flush out the kidneys. When the high
levels of nutrients re-enter tissues, toxins accumulated
over many years are forced into the blood stream. The toxins
are then filtered out by the liver. The liver is easily
overburdened by the continuous release of toxins and is unable
to release the load... Dr. Gerson found that he could provide
help to the liver by the caffeine in coffee, absorbed from
the colon via the hemorrhoidal vein, which carries the caffeine
to the portal system and then to the liver. The caffeine
stimulates the liver/bile ducts to open, releasing the
poisons into the intestinal tract for excretion."

The Gerson Therapy book consists of nearly 400 pages of
treatment specifics, instruction, hints, cautions, recipes,
case histories, and references, all held together with an
authority that only experience can bring. Some of the blunt,
uncompromising statements Ms. Gerson makes are certain to
get up the medical profession's collective nose. Too bad
for them. for she is right. Charlotte Gerson's entire life
has been immersed in healing people, first learning while
assisting her father, and later teaching his method to the
world. Co-author Dr. Morton Walker is one of my favorite
medical writers, and putting these two talents
together in The Gerson Therapy was a master stroke.

I personally have seen what the Gerson program can do for
a terminally ill cancer patient. I have been called upon
to help in a couple of high-profile but last minute cases.
One patient was a well-known sports figure. He was given
some months to live and was not happy about it, as he was
still in his 50's. He asked what his best shot would be
for inoperable, untreatable metastasized cancer. I told
him: the Gerson therapy. He did it, not in its entirety,
but with enthusiasm. And, he lived considerably longer that
he was expected to. But what really impressed me was the
dramatic improvement in his energy level. From fatigue
and weakness, he went instantly to a vibrant life,
commencing from the very week he started the program.
He maintained a more-than-full schedule for so long that
even people who knew he was sick forgot that he was sick.

Years later, people that never knew of my involvement
in the matter would bring up his name, invariably recalling
how active he was and how good he looked until, almost as
a surprise, he died.

I saw a similar level of success with a prominent New York
businessman, the owner of a chain of stores and afflicted
with untreatable liver cancer. He began to do much, but
by no means all, of the Gerson program, and was subsequently
able to extensively travel the world with his family.
He lived years longer than expected, with a high quality
of life confirmed by all who saw him.

Looking only at these two patients, wanton critics of
Gerson's method might think that, without complete and
unequivocal cure, there is little to crow about. Such a
view is unproductive, for neither of these patients
followed the Gerson program completely. It is a tough
sell, even to a person with a terminal diagnosis.

Why is this?

Ignorance and arrogance make a bad combination, and
"modern" medicine has been guilty of both for decades.
Political physicians did not heed Dr. Gerson. In
fact, they publicly condemned him. The news media have been
their willing accomplices. The misinformation they spew to
this day is fraught with fabricated frights of natural
therapies, while in the same breath they spew forth the
wonders of pharmaceutical drugs. When is the last time
you saw a favorable mention of the Gerson program in the
newspaper or on TV? Since pharmacological doctors
have no sure-fire cure for cancer (an understatement if
there ever was one), they might at least back a winning
horse. The Gerson approach has been shown, for over six
decades, to significantly improve both quality of life and
length of life in the sickest, the most hopeless, of cancer
patients. Many people have been completely cured on the
Gerson therapy.

I am especially pleased with the open-minded spirit of
cooperation which I detect in reading The Gerson Therapy.
The authors' awareness of the realities of individual
patient needs is well demonstrated with the inclusion of
chapter sections discussing unavoidable modifications
of the program. Instructions for home self-care, for
patients undergoing chemotherapy, and for the treatment of
very advanced cases, are all provided.

The book also contains explicit instructions for the
administration of the Therapy's controversial but
nonetheless crucial liver-detoxifying coffee enemas.
(Yes, at body temperature.) The use of castor oil, a
thorough listing of which foods to eat (and not eat),
how to juice, psychological aspects of therapy, and
generally favorable mentions of megadose vitamin C
supplementation are also presented. The concise chapter
(Chapter 6) on melanoma is extraordinary, easily
the best I have read anywhere.

Dosage and rationale for the supplements Dr. Gerson
prescribed is the focus of Chapter 11. Potassium, iodine,
digestive enzymes, niacin and (by prescription)
thyroid, liver extract and vitamin B-12 injections
are all covered. Both this chapter, and the "Resources"
section of the Appendix, are free of any attempt to
market such products, a feature I wish to highlight
for special praise.

I liked the inclusion of references at the end of each
chapter, and the thoroughness of devoting a chapter to
appropriate laboratory tests. And everyone
will enjoy reading the success stories in Chapter 21.

Some years ago I watched a video tape of a Gerson patients'
"reunion." On stage were people from all walks of life, and
most were advanced in age. One after the other they spoke
of the cancer they were diagnosed with three, ten, or
twenty years ago. All were recovered. Dr. Gerson was the
reason. You cannot watch such an event and fail to be moved.

A special benefit of The Gerson Therapy is that it is not
specifically a cancer treatment. Dr. Gerson saw it as a
metabolic treatment, one that cleanses the human organism
while strengthening the body's ability to heal itself. Not
surprisingly, therefore, the Gerson therapy is effective
against all manner of diseases, some 50 of which are
listed on page 21.

I am even more interested in the preventive aspects of
the Gerson diet. As I write this, I have a cool quart and
a half of carrot juice in my tummy. I do not particularly
enjoy carrot juice, but I do want to prevent illness. Only
time will tell for me personally, but I am going to take a
Pascal-like viewpoint: there is no down side to juiced
vegetables.

Well, maybe one: some people don't wish to change their
diet and lifestyle. Jack Benny, when asked "Your money or
your life" made radio comedy history with his answer,
"I'm thinking!" To a profoundly sick person, the question
might be rephrased, "The Gerson Therapy or your life."
Too many persons have died thinking.

Don't be one of them.

"I see in Dr. Max Gerson one of the most eminent geniuses
in medical history." Dr. Albert Schweitzer

I understand that the book is not generally available at
bookstores. You can obtain a copy for $17 plus $2.50
postage & handling. Send a check or M.O. (no credit card
facilities) to 355 Greenwood Place; Bonita, CA 91902. The
checks should be made out to Charlotte Gerson. She will be
glad to autograph the book if asked to. I am including this
note to reduce the number of emails I have been receiving
requesting ordering information. I have no financial
connection whatsoever with any author, publisher or
distributor of any book I review.

To learn more about how to do the Gerson Therapy:
http://www.doctoryourself.com/gersonspeech.html is the
transcript of a speech by Dr. Gerson himself.

http://www.doctoryourself.com/bib_gerson_therapy.html
is a bibliography of published clinical studies showing
the demonstrated benefits of the Gerson treatment

http://www.doctoryourself.com/bib_gerson.html is a
bibliography of all of Dr. Gerson's scientific writings.

READERS SAY:
"I find the information at http://www.doctoryourself.com
to be straight forward, to the point, extremely useful and
accurate. The information provided on vitamin C alone is
priceless. Following the information about titrating to
bowel tolerance at
( http://www.doctoryourself.com/titration.html ),
I have remained free of colds and flu now for over a year.
One day last week, I took 42,000 milligrams of C to stave
off something viral, perhaps due to excessive physical
exertion and not taking more C sooner. (My normal daily
dose is 21,000 mg.) Worked like a charm. I am still in
the process of working my way through the other articles
on your site. With each one, I learn more and more, and
am loving every minute of it."

"EVERY CRISIS REPRESENTS NOT ONLY DANGER BUT ALSO
OPPORTUNITY." Eckhart Tolle, in THE POWER OF NOW. (1999)
NY: New World Library. ISBN 1-57731-152-3.

Reviewed by John I. Mosher, Ph.D. jimosher@yahoo.com ,
Biology Professor Emeritus, State University of New York.

After years of mental anguish, suffering much as most of us
have, Eckhart Tolle has written The Power of Now. His book
is a presentation of age-old truths with a transformative
insight, delivered in a manner to which those of us from the
western industrial, materialistic culture can easily relate.
As with a sword, Mr. Tolle cuts through the confusion of our
personal, and national, suffering and offers insights into
the basis of that suffering.

But wait: things are not hopeless. According to Mr. Tolle,
you can create a place in your consciousness for transformation.
You can begin to heal yourself from the inside out... As your
true essence becomes more dominant and the thinking mind is
used only as a tool or servant to you, then peace, unconditional
love, happiness, and transformation begin to take place. The
secret is to go within. This is what spiritual practice,
stress-reducing practices, and practices that calm and stabilize
the mind, are ideally intended to do. From my understanding of
Mr. Tolle's message, this is a way for practicing The
Power of Now.

I highly recommend The Power of Now, and Mr. Tolle's new
book, Practicing the Power of Now, as guides for your journey
to enjoying good health, long life, and happiness.

You can read the full text of Dr. Mosher's review at
http://www.doctoryourself.com/nowpower.html

TODAY'S GORILLA BEHAVIOR HINT:
When you use weights (bar or dumbbells), tap your chest
lightly with them with each repetition. This stimulates your
thymus gland, located just above your heart. The thymus is
part of your immune system. Is that why gorillas pound
their chests? Or maybe all of this is just to impress the
"gorilla my dreams." (If you didn't catch that right away,
say it slowly, out loud.)

COMING NEXT ISSUE:
A Special Feature Article on
EXACTLY HOW TO GET AN INTRAVENOUS VITAMIN C INFUSION
ORDERED BY YOUR DOCTOR OR HOSPITAL
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